Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:34:45 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, chrisw@osdl.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
       jamie@shareable.org, serue@us.ibm.com, linuxram@us.ibm.com,
       jmorris@namei.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] New system call, unshare
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On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0500, JANAK DESAI wrote:
> To answer Ingo's question, we did look at other flags when I started. 
> However,
> I wanted to keep the system call simple enough, with atleast namespace 
> unsharing,
> so it would get accepted. In the original discussion on fsdevel, 
> unsharing of vm
> was mentioned as useful so I added that in addition to namespace unsharing.

So make that a series...  Note that it can be merged gradually - adding
and debugging the unsharing of fs, files, etc. can be done independently
and with no ABI changes.
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